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Street View team spent four days exploring the wild terrain and
collecting the images which will open up this vast wilderness to the
rest of the world.

Speaking to the Guardian, Aaron Brindle,
project leader, said: 'I live in Toronto and I absolutely take for
granted that everything is where it should be and that this map is kind
of my world, but for so long that hasn't been the case in the north.'

Remote: The search-engine firm has flown a Street View team to Iqaluit, pictured, a town in the Canadian territory of Nunavut

Isolated: The Street View team spent four days exploring the wild terrain and collecting the images which will open up this vast wilderness to the rest of the world

The town, which is inhabited by just 7,000 people, will be available to see on Street View in July.

However, it is not just the rest of the world which is benefiting from this mapping exercise.

The town is hoping to use the maps to promote the area for people looking to visit or live there. It is also hoped the maps could speed up planning decisions for the town.

Google Street View also gave the world a
rare glimpse into one of Japan's eerie ghost towns which remain
deserted two years after the country's triple disaster.

Technical: This image shows one of the camera-mounted backpacks

Google Street View this week released new pictures inside the 12-mile exclusion zone around Namie that was devastated in 2011 by the earthquake and tsunami.

The natural disasters sparked the Fukushima nuclear disaster that left the area uninhabitable.

The stark pictures were captured this month after Namie town mayor Tamotsu Baba invited Google into his town.